If you've ever taken
any legal research training sessions from us, you're probably aware that we are very much fans of skipping keyword searching altogether.
Advanced
Legal Research training should be coming into total legitimacy.
There are many variations on this theme, with courses changing over the years, but
legal research training remains the middle child of the first year of law school.
Legal research training is not a shiny, new pedagogic toy.
The course combines legal writing and
legal research training with most courses skewing strongly toward the writing component.
Once again
legal research training sits out the dance.
But now law schools contend that skills training does not include
legal research training.
So
legal research training stays where it was and as it was.
Please join the Law Librarians of New England and the Association of Boston Law Librarians for a fall meeting focused on established and emerging best practices in
legal research training and resource management.
Legal research training specifically is not done by another group and can not be totally automated — though there is some potential for that.
All this said, I think traditional
legal research training is going the way of radio drama.
I agree that the legal research landscape has changed, but so long as Advanced Legal Research courses change with it, I think there is still a need for them in law schools today (and for continuing
legal research training for articling students and lawyers, too).
Now the bulk of
legal research training is done by the WESTLAW and LEXIS representatives who meet our first year students at the door.
Not exact matches
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«The UNODC, EU and UNICEF have indeed dispensed and are stil dispensing huge financial capital to
training and
legal research in the justice sector in Nigeria and the idea to establish the Judicial Research Centre is therefore their overall effort to deliver a home based continuous education and research avenue in all legal and justice
research in the justice sector in Nigeria and the idea to establish the Judicial
Research Centre is therefore their overall effort to deliver a home based continuous education and research avenue in all legal and justice
Research Centre is therefore their overall effort to deliver a home based continuous education and
research avenue in all legal and justice
research avenue in all
legal and justice issues.
Through an agreement of cooperation between ZMT and the International Ocean Institute (IOI), with each contributing its respective expertise and channels, it is expected that a global network can be created going beyond science, seeking a comprehensive approach to addressing ocean and coastal issues, with interdisciplinary projects, involving natural and social sciences, economics, and
legal elements addressing education,
training and
research.
Postdoctoral scholars should receive
training in responsible conduct of
research so as to improve their ability to make ethical and
legal choices.
The students were briefed about the institute and informed that it continues to walk the legacy of Prof. Wangari Maathai and therefore keen on
training transformative leaders and change agents with a multidisciplinary practical knowledge on resource economy, policy,
legal pluralism, community mobilization skills and appropriate participatory approaches handy in assisting communities to sustainably utilize resources besides developing policy and generating
research data that would guide integrated environmental governance and management.
As Director of the Criminal Justice Program for the Animal
Legal Defense Fund, Lora Dunn assists prosecutors and law enforcement throughout the country on animal cruelty cases — from
research and written support on motions, pleadings, and briefs to
trainings and presentations.
Using the confluence of Education Week and the start date of our law firm's summer students, I am choosing to write about some upcoming
training sessions for law students and those who ensure law students are office ready vis - a-vis
legal research.
Ms Rai is an accomplished law librarian and
legal research instructor
trained in law.
Yes, law school does a good job at
training you to «think like a lawyer» and spot issues, do
legal research, draft
legal documents, and put together a
legal argument.
Good
legal research is as much the product of one's experience as a lawyer, as it is of one's
training and talent, if not more so.
Thomas Fleming's
Legal Research for the Google Generation contains some points that may be useful for those of us designing
training for incoming students.
Training United States law students in the skills of
legal research has never been easy.
As online
legal research resources become more personalized and sophisticated, it is increasingly important that lawyers outside of major urban centres be offered such
training and have access to the reference services of a
trained law librarian at the local level, especially if they are to be expected to offer competent and competitive
legal services to their clients.
The
research finds that 71 per cent of directors of
legal operations have a law degree, but
legal training is not essential — the remaining 29 per cent of those in the role have no formal
legal expertise.
Upon arrival, McCague Borlack's students participate in a multi-day comprehensive orientation, including computer skills
training, introduction to the firm's basic policies and procedures, and a series of seminars on various substantive and practice matters including
legal research, docketing, file and practice management; and motions.
«We're conducting
research to improve
legal services, engaging with the
legal industry, and
training 21st century, T - Shaped lawyers.
Hanson, Bridgett occasionally hires vendors to
train paralegals on specific
legal topics and software applications, and also holds monthly
training sessions for its paralegals covering a wide variety of topics ranging from
legal writing,
research and leadership development to privilege review, trial preparation and mediation.
In recent years,
legal writing professors and law librarians have given much scholarly attention to questions of pedagogy and
training in a world of online
legal research.
To develop this foundation, the best
training in «
legal research» wouldencompass a broader skill set.
Corporate Vision magazine conducts annual
research to identify law firms that have demonstrated innovation, creativity, and lead the
legal industry in processes, systems and procedures that have led the law firm into expansion, achievements in its practice areas, has a progressive
training program for new employees, or has established great outcomes in its cases.
PSLs are well - respected attorneys, usually with several years of practice experience, who draft or gather high - quality precedent documents,
research and summarize
legal developments for internal and client use, help billable attorneys find expert colleagues, and
train junior lawyers.
• Create 15 new staffed civil
legal aid attorneys; • Increase the capacity of pro bono programs across the state; • Invest in
research and
training for
legal aid and pro bono attorneys; and, • Provide Northwest Justice Project attorneys with long overdue cost of living and salary adjustments.
In his investigation, Mr. Glotzer may review information gathered in state and federal investigations, interview witnesses, consult with commuter
train and engineering experts, and perform extensive
legal research for other similar cases.
The MoU, signed by Professor Eric Fouache, Vice Chancellor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and David Gallo, Director, DIFC Academy of Law, will seek collaboration on
legal research and
training that benefits the UAE
legal community.
Based on this
research I suggest that we consider mediation
training as one way to counter these trends and to improve well - being of law students, lawyers and other
legal professionals.
The projects potentially include: legislative drafting at both the state and federal level;
legal research, amicus briefs and testimony on relevant legislation and significant cases; collaboration with tech industry leaders on anti-harassment policies; community outreach, victim support, and
training programs for law enforcement and educational institutions; and fundraising efforts.
Instituting support for education efforts for
legal and administrative staff, from resource specific
training to
research competency assessment and coaching, using standard materials and formats throughout the firm.
This special library experience then facilitated another move into course
training development functions that called for sound
legal research skills that were closely tied to my law library
training, education and development.
5)
Training: An important aspect of what most law librarians do is to
train their patrons on effective
legal research and information literacy.
1) Hypothesis # 1:
Legal researchers suffer less anxiety at the initiation stage of their
research if they consult a
trained law librarian to discuss the issue and identify a
research strategy, including recommended sources.
LexisNexis is currently offering free 20 - minute
training sessions on a wide variety of
legal research topics:
The case law describing the range of circumstances invoked by open - ended lists of factors and interpreting phrases such as «undue hardship,» and similar idiomatic expressions such as «unless the court otherwise orders» and «unless it would be inappropriate,» must be consulted to properly understand the law, creating a significant barrier to justice for people not
trained in
legal research and the jurisdictional nuances of stare decisis.
Lawyers are
trained to perform
legal research, identify useful precedents, prepare for and conduct proper examination - in - chief and cross-examination, and then craft
legal arguments.
In addition, the firm offers a practical
training component that provides hands - on experience with activities such as drafting a
legal research memorandum, negotiating a deal, drafting an IPO document, taking a deposition and trying a case in a mock trial.
This insight is based in part on my own empirical
research on
legal education and the
legal academy, which is primarily housed at and funded by the American Bar Foundation, on
legal education and the
legal academy.5 In this Article, I will also draw on several current examples of law schools that incorporate social science into
legal training, using them to illustrate how interdisciplinary
research can bridge theory and practice for lawyers and the
legal profession.
While I have spent many hours thinking about effective
legal research and writing
training, it was not until I picked up this newsletter that I was reminded of one of the keys to learning (at least according to some of my 12 year old son's teachers).
Lastly, this study investigates whether current
legal research skills
training offers useful guidelines to future digital
legal researchers.»